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Autorun.RS - Virus
Threat Level I
Damage II
Distribution I
Common name: Autorun.RS
Technical name: W32/Autorun.RS.worm
Threat level: Medium
Type: Virus
Subtype: Worm
Effects: It downloads several variants belonging to the Lineage family, which is designed to steal passwords related to online games. It also downloads an update of itself and uses several techniques in order to make its detection more difficult. It spreads through local, removable and mapped drives.
Affected platforms: Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
First detected on: March 14, 2008
Detection updated on: March 14, 2008
Statistics No
Proactive protection: Yes, using TruPrevent Technologies
Brief Description
Autorun.RS is a worm that downloads several variants belonging to the Lineage family. These Trojans are designed to steal passwords related to online games, such as Lineage or World of Warcraft.
It also connects to a certain website in order to download updates of itself, and uses several techniques in order to make its detection more difficult.
Autorun.RS spreads through local, removable and mapped drives, making copies of itself in them and infecting these drives. However, it does not modify any file.
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